Did you know that the fourth leading cause of death of accidental death in children under the age of 5 is choking? Angela Henderson, a blogger from Australia, decided to raise awareness for this issue by posting a shocking photo on her Facebook wall. It was one of an X-ray of a five-year-old kid’s esophagus, where …
A 5-week-old infant Lillian Grace Lloyd was brutally murdered by her very own father, Dalton Davis. He had killed her out of anger. How he did so was truly cruel – he slammed his own child’s head on the concrete pavement until she bled to death. After the baby died, Davis took her body and hid …
The Expert Field Medical Badge is an honor given to military medical personnel who can complete a series of exhausting and tiring tests, some written and some physical. It is so difficult to attain that it is estimated that up to 80% fail the examinations. U.S. Army Captain Sarah Cudd of Public Health Command, Fort …
When two garbage disposal men were compacting and crushing trash from their truck, they weren’t expecting to suddenly hear loud, desperate cries coming from a plastic bag. They located the bag that the noises were coming from and were shocked by what they nearly crushed. Inside the bag was a little gray cat whose fur …
If you looked up the word “persistent” in the dictionary, don’t be surprised if you find a picture of this incredibly friendly cat right next to the definition! When Keith Urban, a police officer, pulled a car over during a routine traffic stop, he expected nothing more than his usual monotonous routine. But then an …
When you go fishing, you know you’ll return home with fishes, not a story about rescuing a deer! But that’s exactly what happened when Rob Kurdy and his friends went fishing in Long Island South. When they were out there, they noticed ‘something’ about six miles offshore. They couldn’t make out at first, but when …
When an emergency is happening and someone is in a panic, you can hardly expect them to remain calm and speak eloquently. But apparently, that’s what Officer Robert McFarland wanted to hear when he picked up a 911 call from Adrianne Ledesma, 17, of Lincoln Park, Michigan. Ledesma’s father had undergone brain surgery three weeks …
Gloria Porter, 88, was admitted to Excela Frick Hospital for a week due to pneumonia and passed the time by watching construction workers building the hospital’s new entrance. One particularly snowy day, one ironworker named Jeff Reick happened to look over and see her watching. As a kind, sweet act, he went up to an …
The city council of Medina, Ohio held a meeting to discuss a series of block grants. However, something unexpected happened when the mayor herself addressed the issue – someone let out a loud fart throughout the hall. Everyone heard it, and burst into chuckles! Even the mayor tried to redirect the conversation to the meeting, but she could …
A period of 7 years ago, Angie Twiggs had noticed a small bump growing just beneath her ear lobe and was greatly alarmed. So she decided to have it medically examined at a local clinic. The doctor however, told her that it was not that much of a big deal and advised her to leave it as …